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Benjamin Eckel, last edited on 21.07.2022
Name:
Maria Octavie Karoline Dertinger
Life Dates:
1905 – 2004
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Employers:
City of East-Berlin
Education:
Technical University Dresden
Maria Dertinger (née Freiin von Neuenstein-Rodeck) graduated in architecture from the Technical University in Dresden. In 1948, she became a construction manager at the Mitte district office in East Berlin. Little is known about her activities as an architect in the GDR. She published, among other things, on the diversity of types in housing construction (1952) and on church buildings (1952).
As the wife of Georg Dertinger, who as a party member of the CDU was the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the GDR, both were persecuted due to political discrepancies with the SED. Maria was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1954 after numerous interrogations, but was released early in 1960. Her husband was also released early in 1964 after a plea for clemency to Walter Ulbricht, but died just two years later.
Maria Dertinger died in Leipzig in 2004 at the age of 99.
Dertinger, Maria: Vielfalt von Typen im Wohnungsbau. In: Neue Zeit, 26. Juni 1952, p. 3.
Dertinger, Maria: Aus den Katakomben in die Kathedrale. Das christliche Gotteshaus als Aufgabe der Architektur. In: Neue Zeit, 16. Oktober 1952, p. 9.
Beckmann, Andreas; Kusch, Regina: Gott in Bauten. Die Gefangenenseelsorge der DDR, Berlin 1994.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Dertinger (last accessed on 21.07.2022)
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